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London, Thomas and William Boone, 1858. 2°, 380 x 270 mm. Contemporary brown half-leather and green cloth binding. Dedication: "To the Academicians of the Crusca, this edition of the Divine Comedy, reprinted word for word from the first editions of Foligno, Jesi, Mantua, and Naples, as a sign of the highest esteem, their humble colleague offers. London, August 1, 1858. Vernon." Contains 5 plates with facsimile reproductions of the various editions cited.
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Mambelli, n.302: "A rare and magnificent edition—diligently edited by Antonio Panizzi, who also dictated the preface—printed on two-column paper, in just one hundred copies."
The preface describes the original volumes from which the text was copied verbatim: Foligno, a copy from the British Museum; Jesi, a copy from the same Museum formerly owned by the Della Pace family of Udine, with inserts from the Spencer copy; Mantua and Naples, copies from the Grenvillian Library, now part of the British Library (from the preface by A. Panizzi, editor of the edition). The topics of the cantos are then listed according to the Foligno edition. Following the subtitle, the Comedy is presented, with the four editions compared on the same page. This edition, printed in just 100 copies, commissioned by Lord Vernon as a tribute to his appointment as an Accademia della Crusca, was printed on splendid, heavy paper with meticulous care and clarity.
The preface describes the original volumes from which the text was copied verbatim: Foligno, a copy from the British Museum; Jesi, a copy from the same Museum formerly owned by the Della Pace family of Udine, with inserts from the Spencer copy; Mantua and Naples, copies from the Grenvillian Library, now part of the British Library (from the preface by A. Panizzi, editor of the edition). The topics of the cantos are then listed according to the Foligno edition. Following the subtitle, the Comedy is presented, with the four editions compared on the same page. This edition, printed in just 100 copies, commissioned by Lord Vernon as a tribute to his appointment as an Accademia della Crusca, was printed on splendid, heavy paper with meticulous care and clarity.
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